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Just ‘peachy’ keen! 😁👌

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Next up, some pattern weaving experiments with cane!

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The rooms needed help. The first priority was to draw a lot more natural light into the interior spaces. There were four rooms to begin with (if I remember correctly) which got expanded into eight guest rooms. Along with this, a reception lobby, a dining hall, a library, back of house areas and large terraces with sweeping views of the river and the hills beyond, were painstakingly carved out of the existing structure.

So why go through all this trouble to restore when it’s so much easier to raze and build afresh?
Because every part of the home, whether it’s the furniture, or the old walls, or the cracked railing of the first floor terrace, is layered with memory and association.. of those who’ve lived in it..of those who’ve worked on it.. and that makes it all the more valuable!

Photos of the house courtesy